[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#573016: sysv-rc files can not be conffiles with the Conflicts/Replaces scheme

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello!

For the record since this we just discussed this and ran into this....

The conflicting files between sysv-rc, file-rc, et.al. can *NOT* be
conffiles because of the scheme that was invented to make it possible
for eg. file-rc to replace sysv-rc.

If for example /etc/init.d/rc is made a conffile, then just specifying
a Conflicts will not work properly as the file is not removed when
the package is.

(As Petter already suggested, moving the files out of /etc is a much
better plan.)

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson